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Par2: Locking out ESC key
2000-06-09 -- Jim Kane
 
> When you are in a Form, Browse, or Window, pressing the Esc key blows you
> out of the procedure. This is catastrophic if you have a parent record not
> saves and child records in a browse on the window. So what is the best way
> to lock out the esc key? I have in the past been alerting the esc key to say
> F12. This does it, but there should be a better way to do it.
>
There is! Define a local variable, OkToClose byte(0)
In event:closewindow put if ~OkToClose then cycle.
You could add an error message to the cycle if you wanted.



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